- SHEA BUTTER ORI
- PUMPKIN – UGU
- BUSH BUCK : UTAZI / AROKEKE
- BITTER LEAF – EWURO / ONUGBU
- JUTE LEAF – EWEDU
- AFRICAN OIL BEAN SEED – UGBA
- BAOBAB – AWIN
- CAMWOOD / RED SANDALWOOD- OSUN
- TURMERIC – ATA ILE PUPA
- GINGER – ATA ILE
- HIBISCUS – ZOBO
- WALNUT – ASALA
- HENNA – LAILI
- COCONUT OIL – ADIN AGBON
- PALM KERNEL OIL – ADIN DUDU
- FENUGREEK –
- BASIL – EFIRIN
- BLACK PEPPER – IYERE
- CLOVE – KONOFURU
- NEGRO PEPPER – EERU/ SYLOPIA ACTHIPIA/ UDA /KIMBA
- CALABASH NUT MEG – ARIWO / EHU
- NEEM – DONGOYARO
- OKRO – ILA
- TALLOW – ORA-ERAN (COW FAT)
- LARD – PIG FAT
- SCENT LEAF AFIRIN
- MACKEREL TITUS FISH
- TIGER NUT OFI HO
- ALMOND FRUIT / TROPICAL ALMOND
- KOLA – NUT OBI
- BITTER KOLA OROGBO
- YUCA LEAF EWE PAKI / CASSAVA LEAF
- AVOCADO PEAR
- CASSAVA PAKI
- CASSAVA FLAKES GARRI
- BANANA & PLANTAIN O GBEDE
- YAM FLOUR ELUBO
- PLANTAIN FLOUR ELUBO OGBEDE
- BEANS EWA
- YAM ISU
- SWEET POTATOES ODUN KUN
- SNAIL IGBIN
- RED PALM-OIL EPO- PUPA
- EGG PLANT OBOGILI
- LEMON / LIME OSAN WEWE
- PAW-PAW IBEPE
- BELL PEPPER TATASE
- HONEY OYIN
- CAYENE BAWA
- CHILLI – SHOMBO
- GARLIC – AYU
- OKRA ILA
- DATES BAR DABINU (IN HAUSA)
- PEANUT / GROUNDNUT EPA
- Borreria verticillata – Irawo ile
- Nicotiana tabacum – Ewe taba
- Thorny pigweed/prickly amaranth – Tete eleegun in yoruba
- Tabasco pepper – Ata-wewe
- Lettuce – Yanrin
- Enantia chloranta – Awopa
- Jatropha curcas – Botuje, Lapalapa
- cotton-leaf physicnut- Botuje pupa
- Tigernut Ofio
- MISTLETOE AFOMO (in yoruba)
- POTASH COCOA/ PLANTAIN POD-ASH ARO
- SNAIL IGBIN
- PALM KERNEL OIL (PKO) ADIN DUDU
- COCOA BUTTER ORA COCOA
- ORANGE OSAN
- MACKEREL TITUS
- HORSE MACKEREL KOTE
- GUINEA CORN OKA-BABA
- HABANERO ATA RODO
- African Red Pepper or Bird’s Pepper
Ata Eiye – Yoruba
Igbo – Ose Oyibo
Hausa – Barkono
Esan – Usira
Benin – Isie
- Leaves of Mormodica Charantia
Yoruba – Ejirin
English – Balsam Pear
- Lime Citrus Aurantifolia
Yoruba – Osan wewe
Igbo – Epe nkirisi
Hausa – Lemu
- Basil Ocinum
English – Scent Leaves
Yoruba – Efirin
Igbo – Nchanwu
- Avocado Pear Persea Americana
Yoruba – Pia
Igbo – Ubebekee/ Ube Oyibo
Bini – Orumwu
Efic – Eban Mbakara
- African Marigold Aspilia Africana
Yoruba – Yun Yun
Igbo – Uranjila
Hausa – Kalan Kuwa
Urhobo – Isahrasa
Efik – Edemeron
- Pigeon Peas Cajanus Cajans
Yoruba – Otili/ Feregede
Bini – Orela
Esan – Olele
Igbo – FioFio
- Baobab Tree
Bark of Adansonia Digitata
Yoruba – Ose
Hausa – Kuka
Bini – Usi
- Ageratum Conyzoides
English – Goat weed
Igbo – Akwukwo nwa Osi n’aka or ahenhea
Yoruba – Imi-eshu
Bini Eb – ghedore
Urhobo – Ikpamaku
Efik – Otiti
- Morinda Lucida
English – Brimstone tree
Yoruba – Oruwo, Eruwo
Igbo – Eze-ogu, Njisi
- Alstonia Boneei
English – Stool wood
Igbo – Egbu
Yoruba – Ahun, Awun
Esan – Ojegbuhkun
- Water Leaf
Talinum Triangulare
Yoruba – Gbure
Hausa – Alenyruwa
Igbo – Nte-Oka
- Bitter Leaf
Igbo – Onugbu
Yoruba – Ewuro
- Capsicum frutenscens
English – Birds pepper, African red pepper
Igbo – Ose, Ose oyibo
Yoruba – Ata eiye
Hausa – Barkono
Benin – Isie
- Newbouldia laevis
English – Fertility plant
Igbo – Ogirishi
Yoruba – Akoko
Esan – Uhkimi
- Jartropha Curcas
English – Pig nut
Igbo – Olulu-idu
Hausa – Da Zugu
Yoruba – Botuje, Lapalapa.
- Talinum triangulare
English – Water leaf
Igbo – Ntu oka, ofe bekee
Yoruba – Ibure
- Xylopia aethiopica
Yoruba – Erunje
Igbo – Uda
Hausa – Kimba
Esan – Usira
- Spondias mombin
English – Hog plum
Igbo – Ijikara
Yoruba – Akika, Iyeye
Hausa – Tsadar masar
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